Patent decision

BL number

O/0706/23

Concerning rights in

GB1916652.9

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

24 July 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Prevayl Innovations Limited

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to an electronics arrangement that is used to provide a physiological classification of a user from sensor data. The sensor data is obtained via a wearable article. The sensor data is then processed and a machine-learned model is used to generate the physiological classification. It is then determined if the machine-learned model should be updated. If the model is updated, data related to the new machine-learned model is transmitted to an external computer. The external computer performs an updating process on the model and the updated physiological classification model is returned. The hearing officer assessed the invention using the Aerotel approach. The hearing officer considered the benefits of the invention but found that it made no additional improvement to the known advantages of the technologies used to implement the claimed invention. This meant that the actual contribution made by the invention related only to a program for a computer, as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

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